Abstract

Adolescence is a crucial period in one's life span. Social scientists view adolescent as a period of intense changes that can have a lasting effect on the individual's further life. It involves extensive changes in almost every aspect of development, including physical, cognitive, emotional and social domains. It is during this period that adolescents start growing beyond their parents. As they become older, adolescents view their parents in less idealized terms but more as individuals (Steinberg and Silverberg, 1986). As adolescence involves crucial changes the adolescent is challenged with the demand of adjusting to these changes with respect to his/her major life domains such as relations with parents, with others, with self and school achievement and health aspects. In ability to adjust to these changes often lead to maladaptive problems in adolescents (Verma and Larson, 1999). The present study is aimed to examine the emotional and behavioral problems among normal and visually impaired adolescent students. Gender, Class, No. of sibling and Biith order were considered to use as biographical variables. The main objective of the study is to examine the differences between normal and visually impaired adolescent students on emotional and behavioral problems. The sample of the present study consists of 224 students (with 47.3% of them being visually impaired students) studying 6th to 9th classes in various schools in the north coastal area of Andhra Pradesh. The age range of the sample is 10 to 16 years. All the students selected are from residential schools. The obtained data from the sample w

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